Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Martin Freeman

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Niklaus Wirth

Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.

Niecy Nash

I didn't get into this business for other people to know my name.

Nicole Krauss

The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible.

Nicole Krauss

I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

Nicky Hilton

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

Nicki Minaj

I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.

Nicki Minaj

One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

Matt Czuchry

When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

Mark Twain

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Mark Twain

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Mark Twain

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Muddy Waters

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

Mr. T

First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.

Mr. T

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

Mr. T

Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?

Mr. T

Table the label and wear your own name.

Muhammad Ali

Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times

Muhammad Ali

So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.

Muhammad Ali

Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form

Muhammad Ali

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Muhammad Ali

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

Mikhail Bakunin

There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

Margot Asquith

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Frank Herbert

Is evolution just another name for God?

George H. W. Bush

The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.

Harold B. Lee

For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory

Harold Bloom

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

Jim Butcher

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Jessi Colter

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

Jesse Ventura

When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.